N31-Bagan Pinang - Janji Calon PAS...........

Calon Pakatan Rakyat Zulkefly Mohamad Omar bertekad mahu meningkatkan kesejahteraan serta kualiti hidup penduduk tempatan seandainya diamanahkan menjadi Adun Bagan Pinang kelak.

Bercakap pada pemberita di sini semalam, Zulkefli menggariskan tiga fokus utama dalam manifestonya 'Bersama Kehendak Rakyat' beliau.

"Daripada 13 permasalahan yang dekat dengan rakyat (Bagan Pinang), umumnya rakyat mahu isu penaiktarafan jalan utama dari Telok Kemang ke Pasir Panjang segera diselesaikan.

"Kedua, rakyat mahu masalah perparitan yang menjadi punca utama banjir kilat, pembiakan lalat serta nyamuk segera diselesaikan.

"Ketiga dan terakhir, rakyat mahu isu alam sekitar yang melibatkan Pantai Port Dickson kerana dengan berbuat demikian, bukan sahaja menggamit semula kehadiran pelancong malah menjana ekonomi setempat," katanya.

Beliau yang juga Pesuruhjaya PAS Negeri turut mengulas dakwaan Umno, kononnya permasalahan malar segar N31 tidak mampu ditanganinya, walaupun Zulkefly ditakdirkan menang kelak.

"Tahun lepas, Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor kata di Parlimen, tiada peruntukan untuk membaiki jalan di sini. Sedangkan tanggungjawab membina jalan sebenarnya di dalam Senarai Persekutuan (Federal List)," jelasnya.

"Jadi, Umno tidak perlulah memperbodohkan rakyat dengan kempen adakah saya mampu memperbaiki jalan jika saya menang.

"Sedangkan, jika Tan Sri Mohd Isa Samad menang sekalipun, itu bukan tanggungjawabnya untuk membina jalan," tambah beliau.

Dalam perkembangan berkaitan, Zulkefly mahu rakyat tempatan bersama beliau, mendesak pihak berwajib menyelesaikan isu perparitan yang dianggapnya sebagai 'akar masalah' pada banjir kilat, pembiakan lalat-nyamuk, sampah-sarap serta bau busuk, di sini.

source:harakahdaily.net

And what has this young chick got to do with calon rasuah UMNO,Isa Samad? Read here.

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N31- Najib - salah Isa bukan dari segi undang-undang negara......

Isa Samad telah menjalani hukuman berat di atas kesalahannya dalam parti dan dipilih sebagai calon BN bagi pilihan raya kecil Bagan Pinang kerana dia mampu memenangi kerusi itu serta popular di kalangan masyarakat kawasan itu, kata Najib Razak. PM berkata bagi pertimbangan pilihan raya kecil, parti akan memilih calon yang mampu berkhidmat di satu-satu kawasan dengan berkesan, popular, diterima masyarakat serta kepimpinannya dikehendaki.Tinjauan parti mendapati Isa adalah calon yang popular di kawasan itu, kata Najib.

Kata Najib lagi, Isa telah dikenakan tindakan di atas kesalahannya termasuk kehilangan jawatan menteri dan naib presiden namun masih setia kepada parti serta bekerja keras untuk parti walaupun tidak berjawatan. Katanya Isa hanya melakukan kesalahan teknikal parti dan bukan kesalahan daripada segi undang-undang negara.

"Soalannya sama ada dia layak mendapat peluang kedua. Dalam sistem kita, penjenayah pun ada dapat peluang kedua, yang dah jatuh hukum oleh mahkamah pun boleh bertanding lepas edah.

"Ini bukan kesalahan dari segi undang-undang negara ini cuma kesalahan teknikal parti. Beliau sudah menerima hukuman," katanya

source:malaysiakini

Hello Najib......menyogok wang untuk meraih undi kerana nak jadi naib presiden,itu dikatakan RASUAH!! Dan rasuah si Isa ini disahkan oleh jawatankuasa disiplin UMNO serta dikenakan tindakan. Jadi kalu salah itu salahlah sama ada teknikal atau "umnonikal" Jangan mai dok temberang di sini,kata Peranchis hang boleh kelentong le.

Najib kata kesalahan Isa bukan dari segi undang-undang negara ini. Hellooooo, bukankah sogok duit berjuta-juta kepada orang supaya dia diangkat naik untuk jadi naib presiden itu,itu salah dari segi undang-undang negara? Apakah negara 1Malaysia ini ada dua set undang-undang, satu untuk rakyat dan satu lagi untuk ahli-ahli UMNO?

Najib..memilih seorang pemimpin yang sudah tahu kesalahannya adalah ibarat memilih seorang penjanayah untuk memimpin negara kita.











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N31-Bagan Pinang - surat palsu angkara UMNO sendiri.................

Surat di atas adalah surat yang terbocor daripada ibu pejabat UMNO. Namun demikian, setiausaha agong UMNO, Adnan Mansor menafikan yang dia ada keluarkan surat tersebut. Sebaliknya Adnan Mansor tuduh ini adalah perbuatan jahat pihak pembangkang yang cuba memperlagakan pemimpin-pemimpin UMNO.

Adnan Mansor ni pun satu lol, sapa yang nak curi masuk ibu pejabat UMNO dan gunakan letterhead UMNO untuk taip surat tersebut? Orang ni bila dah meluat kat UMNO, bayang pejabat UMNO pun depa elak.

Apakah Adnan Mansor tak terpikiaq bahawa perbuatan ini juga boleh dilakukan oleh orang-orang UMNO sendiri yang sama ada meluat kat dia atau pemimpin-pemimpin UMNO bangang yang lain.

Aku pikiaq Najib sememangnya terpaksa terima Isa Samad sebagai calon, sungguhpun dia tahu Isa Sama ni kaki balun $$$ macam dia. Najib terima Isa Sama sebagai calon bukan pasai Isa Sama tu baguih sangat,tapi pasai mengenangkan jasa Isa Samad yang menyelamatkan Najib dari peristewa dia bersama seorang artis di PD dulu.........

Tapi bagi Adnan Mansor ni, kalulah betoi surat itu surat palsu....hang buat repot polis dan samalah sapa saja yang dia syak buat fitnah. Nampak gaya surat yang guna letterhead UMNO tu betoi. Mereka yang tulis surat tu juga adalah penyamun-penyamun yang kini bimbang kalu Isa Sama menang nanti kedudukan MB Negeri Sembilan akan menjadi goyah.

Lagi pula, walaupun Isa Samad ini calon popular dikalangan rakyat Negeri Sembilan, tapi rekod samunnya orang semua tahu. Amalan rasuah sudah sinonim dalam calon kitar semula ini merupakan yang paling popular dalam UMNO itu sendiri. Maklumlah bangkai gajah ni mana boleh tudung dengan nyiru................

UNDILAH PAS

TOLAK ISA SAMAD

TOLAK NAJIB 1MALAYSIA

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Tak payah Isa Samad,letak 'kepala lembu' pun UMNO akan menang.....

Jika sekiranya UMNO/BN meletakkan 'kepala lembu' sebagai calonnya, dengan 5000 undi pos dalam tangan,UMNO/BN sudah terjamin akan menang mudah di Bagan Pinang.

Tetapi dengan memilih Isa Samad, UMNO/BN mungkin tidak begitu yakin sama ada majoriti yang diperolehi dalam pilihanraya umum 2008 dulu boleh diperahankannya.

Memikirkan masalah inilah, menyebabkan UMNO/BN terpaksa akur dengan kehendak ahli-ahli UMNO bahagian tersebut supaya meletakkan bekas MB Isa Samad yang sememangnya sudah terpalit dengan beberbagai gejala rasuah.

Persoalannya, sungguhpun Isa Samad boleh menang besar di Bagan Pinang, tapi adakah kemenangan itu memberi erti sebenar kepada UMNO/BN? Jadi tidak perlulah Najib melalak seantero dunia kononnya UMNO akan memang besar....memang pun UMNO boleh menang tapi sebesar mana?

Dalam senario inilah PAS dan rakan-rakan sekutunya akan berjuang habis-habisan untuk membawa kemenangan yang lebih bermakna, walaupun PAS sedarnya undi pos tak akan memihak kepadanya.

Lawan tetap lawan.

Amazing?! For the second time in a row, Umno chooses a candidate tainted with corruption. They chose Rohaizat Othman at the recent by-election at Permatang Pasir. Rohaizat was disbarred as a lawyer for misusing clients’ funds. Now for the Bagan Pinang by-election, they choose Isa Samad who was suspended by Umno’s very own disciplinary board for money politics (read: corruption).

And the most amazing thing is that Umno’s members from that branch wanted only Isa and even threatened to boycott the by-election if Umno chose another candidate. The fact the Bagan Pinang’s Umno branch demanded for Isa’s selection only reflects the kind of people who are members there.But Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak must be so desperate to win a by-election, that he bowed to pressure and chose a tainted man like Isa.

This selection of Isa is the consequence of many years of handouts in which Umno gives out contracts to their members. And Isa is popular not because he is a quality intelligent leader, but a leader who knows how to manipulate the system to pass contracts to the relevant people.

All the noise from Najib that he wants transparency and accountability in his government is mere empty words and promises. By right, Umno should discipline their members at Bagan Pinang for even threatening to boycott the election, but instead he chose the easy path for short-term gain.

It is very unlikely that Pakatan will win this seat as it is traditionally an Umno seat. So, I can imagine that Najib craves the right to brag after Umno wins (assuming they do), to the entire Malaysia.- Richard Wee

source:malaysian mirror

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Postal Vote - a process so flawed and biased.......

This piece was taken from the editorial desk of Ipoh Echo issue 83 written by Fatholzaman Bukhari, titled,"Making Sense of Postal Vote"............

Fraudulent use of postal vote is a common complaint by the Opposition. Attempts at overhauling the system has been stone-walled by the ruling party for obvious reasons…

General Election

The first ever general election in post-independent Malaya was in 1959. All in all, the country has witnessed 12 general elections, the latest being in March 2008. And if the Prime Minister does not see the urgency of dissolving the parliament to get a new mandate from the rakyat, the 13th General Election will in 2013. The Federal Constitution requires that a general election be held once every five years. Barisan National (BN) has been winning successive general election since 1959 but suffered a setback in March 2008 when it lost its two-third majority in parliament, the first ever in the coalition’s history.

To register as a voter in Malaysia requires one to be citizen of the country and is above 21 years old. They must then register themselves as voters with the Election Commission (EC) either online or at offices sanctioned by the Commission, namely post offices.

Voting Methods

While it is possible to vote by post, proxy and in person in other countries, voting in Malaysia is restricted to these two methods only - in person and by post. However, voting by post is only available to servicemen (armed forces and police personnel), students studying abroad and those serving in Malaysian embassies overseas. Indonesia, like many Western democracies, allows its citizens living abroad to vote. This has somewhat escaped the Election Commission’s notice despite repeated attempts at alluding to such glaring anomaly

Postal vote has remained a contentious issue since the first GE in 1959. The fact that it is only restricted to the privileged few speaks volumes of its inappropriateness in this modern era. The Malayan Emergency had long gone and so had the Communist threats since the December 1989 Armistice. Our security forces no longer operate away from their home bases. With the exception of those serving on UN missions abroad, the majority of our servicemen are home-bound and are located at bases throughout the country. Is there a necessity for them to caste their votes through the mail box?

The country’s armed forces is some 80,000 strong and this number can tip the balance in someone’s favour should all of them vote. The 14,000 postal votes garnered by the BN candidate in the Setiawangsa constituency during the March 2008 election is a case in point.

Grouse

Fraudulent use of postal votes is a common complaint by the Opposition after every general election. Attempts to overhaul the system remain nothing more than lip service to placate the disgruntled. A similar effort at introducing indelible ink to prevent multiple voting was disallowed at the eleventh hour. The excuse given was that voters reserved the right not to use the ink as it had no legal standing. An amendment to the Election Regulations 1981 was required. The EC had failed to table the amendment at the Dewan Rakyat during its final session from August to December 2007.

Postal vote will not be hotly debated if it had remained true to its spirit. If it is done the way we submit our annual income tax returns to IRD via the post, there will be little to complain, as everything is above board. The voter gets his voting slip in an envelope and is required to cross the name of his candidate of choice and then mail the slip in a self-addressed envelope to the EC agent in his constituency. So long as the sealed envelope reaches the returning officer at the stipulated time, the vote is considered valid. But this is not the case insofar as our postal voting process is concerned.

New Approach

The approach to the voting process for servicemen since 1990 has assumed a new dimension. Soldiers are given their voting slips as required. The forms are numbered thus whatever party the individual soldier votes can be traced if tracking needs to be done. Thus secrecy, which is an inherent right of the voter, is being compromised. Once voting is done the soldier does not drop his sealed envelope in a mail box but into a mail bag provided by the EC instead.

In the 1990 and 1995 general elections the job of managing postal vote in the armed forces was entrusted to the Personnel Division of the Ministry of Defence. An officer was assigned to each formation headquarters in the country. The said officer would stay at his assigned location until the whole voting process was done. The mail bags with the postal votes would then be surrendered to the EC. Where these bags will eventually end is anyone‘s guess. And whether the bags will remain intact while in transit is another question altogether. The Election Commission has not given any satisfactory answers in spite of criticisms heaped upon it by the Opposition and election watchdogs.

Canvassing in army camps is strictly taboo and ground commanders are mindful of this restriction. However, there have been instances when members of the ruling party are allowed to “talk to the boys on a personal basis”. Therefore, the possibility of soldiers being smooth-talked into voting a particular party cannot be ruled out.

Gerrymandering

Postal votes will feature prominently at the coming Bagan Pinang by-election on October 11, 2009. The state constituency is home to an armoured regiment, four training establishments and the Army Recruit Training Centre. It supports a population of over 5000 service personnel which represents almost 36 percent of the total number of voters in the constituency. It will definitely have an impact on the overall result.

An equitable solution to this problem is long overdue. We have to do away with postal vote, as the process is so flawed and biased. But will the beneficiaries agree to a change when gerrymandering is their forte? - fathol zaman bukhari

source: ipoh echo

Btw. students and Malaysian studying or living in foreign countries are denied of such voting process. A close friend on mine told me he inquried the Malaysian Embassy in Washington,
whether he and his family members were entitled to postal vote during the 12th GE? The reply was NO, and postal vote were meant for staff of Malaysian Embassy only, replied an official of the Embassy.

So you see how gerry meandering electoral boundaries, abusing postal votes and even holding elections on working days to disadvantage the opposition are tricks of the trade used by the BN with the help of SPR to stay in power as long it takes. Will the rakyat be conned by all these sandiwaras?

In the Bagan Pinang byelection, Mahathir said NO to Isa......but UMNO still need Isa........ coz Isa said that he was not found guilty of committing any criminal offence but instead of violating the party's code of ethics.

Dont you think its time for Mahathir to campaign for the PR candidate?...............

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Najib too wants a piece of "makkal sakti"...........

Makkal Sakti or people power in Tamil, popularised by the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) as a rallying cry for the disenfranchised portions of the Indian community, it later was borrowed liberally as an opposition slogan.

Now, BN looks set on borrowing a bit of makkal sakti magic by means of the newly formed Malaysian Makkal Sakti Party (MMSP), led by former Hindraf coordinator RS Thanenthiran.Come Oct 10, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak will be launching the new party, helmed by his former arch-critic.

This is the first time a BN chairperson is launching a party, let alone a party outside the BN, but Thanenthiran insisted that MMSP was independent from the BN. Najib was endorsing MMSP because Umno was losing its patience with the MIC's ability to win back support from the Indian community.

Political observer and author R Mutharasu opined that Najib was trying to show his commitment to address the woes of the Indian community by engaging groups outside the BN.

"But does he have the same determination to admit these groups into the BN?

Ibrahim Suffian (right), director of independent pollster Merdeka Centre, said,"Perhaps the PM patience with MIC is at an end. They (BN) have to develop their own solution, partly by endorsing the new party. Ibrahim believed that Najib does not plan to use the MMSP as a replacement for MIC because the latter has long roots in the coalition.

"Casting MIC aside will cause serious internal dynamics within the coalition. But (ties with MMSP) will be a strong signal for MIC to shape up," said Ibrahim.

source:malaysiakini

Najib Razak is only dividing the Indians since BN/UMNO cannot get the Indian votes anyway. He is doing this just to deny PR the Indian support. Also he is indirectly telling Samy Vellu that his time is up and he has to go.

But,how stupid can a PM be, taking time off just to launch a political party so that the slogan "makkal sakti" is no more a battle cry slogan against the minority oppressed Malaysian Indians......

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SALAM AIDIL FITRI...........

Kepada muslimin dan muslimat, saya ucapkan Salam Hari Lebaran, pandulah baik-baik agar selamat sampai ke kampung........

To all my friends, Selamat Hari Raya AidilFitri. I hope you enjoy your break and a happy trip back to the kampungs, drive carefully..........

Berpandu dengan cermat dan AWAS..............

will be back soon...........

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The twist and turn in the PKFZ fiasco worries Najib....

The RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone financial debacle took a fresh twist after news leaked alleging that the cabinet had been kept apprised of the massive cost over-runs and may have thereby even given its tacit approval.The shocking revelation has forced Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak into damage control mode. He has ordered the police to immediately investigate the security lapse.

"Anyone who exposes cabinet papers will be subjected to police investigations and action under the Official Secrets Act will depend on the investigations," Najib told reporters late on Friday.

Meanwhile, Deputy Inspector-General of Police Ismail Omar confirmed a probe has begun.

“We are investigating to find out who is responsible for exposing information on the cabinet paper,” he said.

Earlier this week, copies of an 18-page memorandum submitted by the Finance Ministry to the cabinet made the rounds in cyberspace after top anti-government blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin exposed the document on his website. The crux of the memorandum was to seek the cabinet’s retrospective endorsement for a RM4.6 billion government loan to cover the huge over-expenditure in the PKFZ project, which originally was due to cost only RM1.8 billion.

Coincidentally, Raja Petra’s blog has been blocked the past couple of days, with regulator Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission refusing to comment when asked if it had been instructed to do so.

“Has it anything to do with the RM12.5 billion PKFZ documents including cabinet papers, onbillion Port the website in the past three days?,” asked opposition stalwart Lim Kit Siang.

PKFZ is an integrated 1,000 acre commercial and industrial zone located adjacent to the national gateway and transhipment hub in Port Klang. It is the government’s largest port investment ever. However due to massive cost overruns that independent auditors have blamed on weak governance and questionable practice, the original development budget has ballooned multiple folds and and could hit RM12.5 billion if funding undertaken for the project is not revamped soon.

source:malaysian mirror

Najib said the investigation was not to deny the peoples' right to information but the act of exposing the cabinet paper on the Internet was unacceptable. But, the act of not disclosing the real culprits behind the heist that blew the PKFZ scandal out of proportion is also unacceptable.

Najib arah polis menyiasat penyebaran dalam internet rahsia Kerajaan berhubung Skandal Rasuah dalam PKFZ yang termuat dalam blog Raja Petra. Kini blog Raja Petra dikatakan sama ada disekat atau digodam. Sejak dokumen rahsia itu bocor, ribuan pelayar internet di seluruh dunia telah membacanya.

Pelik juga, jika dokumen kabinet itu adalah palsu, kenapa Najib minta siasatan dijalankan? Secara tak langsung, Najib telah mengiyakan kesahihan dokumen berkenaan. Sekiranya dokumen itu palsu sudah lama Najib akan menafikannya dalam satu sidang akhbar.

Sekiranya dokumen tersebut adalah sahih, siapakah dalangnya yang menyebarkan dokumen 'rahsia' itu. Kalau nak tuduh pembangkang, itu adalah pelik juga,kerana fail-fail rahsia ini ada dalam simpanan gomen. Jadi punca kebocoran dokumen itu mesti datang daripada orang dalaman gomen dan apakah tujuan ianya dilakukan, allahu a'alam .

Namun, mungkin selama ini gomen banyak merahsiakan skandal ini, orang itu tuduh orang ini dan orang ini tuduh orang itu, aku saman dia,dia saman aku, macam adengan dalam drama minggu ini. Tapi apa yang jelas sekarang ialah, 100% yang terlibat dalam skandal membalun berbilion-bilion wang rakyat adalah tokoh-tokoh politik daripada UMNO,MCA dan rakan-rakan BN.

Dalam hal ini,Najib hendaklah telus dan ikhlas. Jika benar seperti mana yang didedahkan di dalam dokumen itu, gomen Najib hendaklah bertanggungjawab. Sekiranya, peristewa begini berlaku di negara-negara lain, bak kata sifu Mahathir,"In other countries, when a leader fails, he resigns voluntarily. In Japan, he would commit harakiri (suicide)".

Jadi, sama-sama kita tunggu, andainya dokumen 'rahsia' itu sahih, apakah Najib dan gomennya akan letak jawatan......

Read here too.



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